The Ferrari Pilot Sebastian Vettel missed pole position for the Grand Prix of Spain. Briton Lewis Hamilton in the silver arrow is minimally faster and is chasing a record.
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton will start from Pole Position in the Grand Prix of Spain. The three-time formula 1 world champion from the UK came in the Qualifying round in Barcelona ahead of Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel and his Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas from Finland. Vettel had a minimal backlog of five-hundredths of a second. At the Circuit de Catalunya, the starting place is of particular value: 13 times in the last 16 years, the eventual winner of the Pole Position went to the race.
Hamilton is chasing Schumacher’s record
For Hamilton, the 64 was already. The starting position of his formula 1 career. Thus, the 32-Year-old, only a Pole is located behind the legendary Brazilian Ayrton Senna and four behind record-holder and record-breaking world champion Michael Schumacher. 2014 Hamilton managed to be so far only, victory in Barcelona.
In the race on Sunday (Start 14 CEST, in the DW-live Ticker from 13.45 hrs) starts the Renault driver Nico Hulkenberg of space 13. Pascal Wehrlein finished in the Sauber in Qualifying rank 15. Before the fifth of the 20 races this season, Vettel leads the standings with 86 points, behind the two silver arrow pilots Hamilton (73 points) and Bottas (63).
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